Lew Wallace High School - Quill and Blade Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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“There was a sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more.” Senator Mansfield Courtesy LIFE Magazine Inc. cl963 Twenty-two years ago our nation went to war. Four years later, we had spent more money for that war than the entire accumulated expenditure of the United States government from 1789. Today we are still paying for that war and our children and grandchildren will continue to pay the price of a war they never knew. John Kennedy stood to oppose the waste of war. To some, he was a symbol of peace . . . In the complex radically-changing world, John Kennedy was a legend of success. His story of courage and forceful conviction for that in which he believes is well known. Boldly he tackled personal tragedy and the perils and demands of his own crucial moments and conquered them. To some, John Kennedy was the “great American image come true . . . I believe that on a cold January morning when our thirty-fifth President said, “Ask not what your country can do for you; rather ask what you can do for your country,” his words held a very special meaning for us. In many respects, our high school years are the most important years of our lives, for it is now that we are “awakened to the world we are preparing to lead. In these past three years we witnessed with special warmth the vibrant young President take the reigns of leadership. America suddenly knew an energy she had not felt in decades as the country focused its attention on a Washington that bubbled with a new culture and a new dignity. For the first time the American capitol was a center of achievement—a sounding ground of success. And because we admired him, we took new strides in the education, the art, the learning he admired. New breakthroughs, new interpretations, new life was breathed into our most cherished of all words, Freedom. On November 22, 1963, two years, ten months, five days and one hour of va liant service to his country were climatically brought to an end. For him, whom now we so readily call great, we question, why? But did his greatness lie entirely within the man, or was it in his purpose, his goals and his beliefs, and therefor, in our state? It is for us—whom our beloved President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy so well understood—to carry on his work, his message. This is our duty and our privilege—for it is in us that the lesson and legend of a truly great man will live; therefore we dedicate the 1964 Quill and Blade to his memory.

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Summer is a slide or a game in the water; It’s a piece of red juicy watermelon on a hot breezy day. Summer is carefree fun. Jan Felton